Present:

• Chair: Martin MacLeod, Engineering Computing
• Erick Engelke, Engineering Computing
• Ray White, IST
• Bruce Campbell, Engineering Computing
• Hon Tam, Engineering Computing
• Dennis Herman, Chemical
• Steve Hitchman, Mechanical
• Eric Praetzel, E&CE
• Paul Ludwig, ICR

Regrets

• Hector Budman, Associate Dean For Computing, Faculty of Engineering
• Mahindra Sangara, Systems Design
• Richard Scott, Civil Engineering
• Bernie Roehl, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Mike Herz, Civil Engineering
• Paul Martin, Management Science
• Pete Routledge, Mechanical Engineering

Discussion:

Chairship

Bruce chosen as chair for next year

CFI Summary

• Civil - unknown
• Mechanical
  • Hector putting pressure on Plant Ops for a closet access
  • otherwise everything is planned
  • EC will put in trays and cabling starting in January or ME can ask IST for an earlier completion
• Dean, Systems, Undergrad/First Year, EC, Mansci - all completed
• Chemical
  • conduit was okayed, Dennis will contact Jim Stockie
  • Martin, Steve and Dennis talked about orderring procedures
• E&CE - Martin will meet with Eric about final work

Nexus

• SP2 bug interaction with NetApp - topic introduced by Dennis
• testing upgrade with ES NetApp
• acceptable risk to run with SP1 on workstations until resolution
• all servers running SP2, more risk there
• Hon mentioned all 98on campus and believes it is a bigger thread
• Virus scanning on server
  • available as a NetApp feature, but expensive
  • Bruce tried en-masse scanning with 95 but it crashed, may retry with W2K scanner
  • Ray believes NAV on clients is enough protection
  • procmail available for Email virus scanning, but Norton for Email servers is too expensive
• Spam
  • ORBs is gone, bankrupt!
  • MAPS is still there but is not as agressive and allows more spam through
  • Engmail lets users get through by using a daily key

Nexus Part II

• (Dennis) Microsoft Disk Quota Passed
  • probably passed over quota on N:
  • hon only applies quota on C:
  • need more details - error log message is useless